旁听席

旁聽席
pángtīngxí
noun #36,515

Meanings

  1. 1 public gallery (in a court or assembly)
  2. 2 visitor's seats / observer seats

Examples

HSK 3
Jìzhě men dōu zuò zài pángtīngxí shàng.
The journalists were all seated in the public gallery.
HSK 7-9
Fǎtíng de pángtīngxí zuòwúxūxí.
Every seat in the courtroom's public gallery was filled.

Tips

usage
Built from 旁听 ('to audit / sit in on') + ('seat'). Used for the spectator section of courts, parliaments, and other formal proceedings - and also for the seats in a classroom set aside for non-enrolled auditors.

Stroke Order

páng
tīng